This paper attempts to define the principles and goals that affect the practice of software engineering. Its intent is to organize these aspects of software engineering into a framework that rationalizes and encourages their proper use, while placing in perspective the diversity of techniques, methods, and tools that presently comprise the subject of software engineering.
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This papers describes an effort to develop an integrated set of software development tools to support a disciplined and repeatable approach to software development. This effort, which is really part of a larger program currently underway at System Development Corporation to increase software reliability and control software production costs, is intended to replace what the authors term "ad hoc con...
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A real-time, on-line information storage and retrieval system for telephone information service has been designed at the Telecommunication Laboratories of Taiwan. The input and output of the system are processed in Chinese via a keyboard and a graphic display unit respectively. System functions include sorting, merging, updating, displaying, and printing of data.
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The IEEE Computer Society Computer Elements Technical Committee has been tracking the progress of new technology for many years. The December 1974 workshop in Phoenix once again focused on the impact of semiconductor LSI, but papers and discussions ranged from social problems of the world to that last uncertain electron tipping a flip-flop out of its metastable state. The various factors in the su...
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